“Do people talk about the war?” Miller asked.
“Often,” the missionary said.
“Anyone make sense of it?”
“No. I don’t believe war ever does. It’s a madness that’s in our nature. Sometimes it recurs; sometimes it subsides.”
“Sounds like a disease.”
“The herpes simplex of the species?” the missionary said with a laugh. “I suppose there are worse ways to think of it. I’m afraid that as long as we’re human, it will be with us.”